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  • May 2017
  • Article

Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary-Drink Portion Limits

By: Leslie John, Grant Donnelly and Christina Roberto
In 2012, the New York City Board of Health prohibited restaurants from selling sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces. Although a state court ruled that the Board of Health did not have the authority to implement such a policy, it remains a legally viable... View Details
Keywords: Nutrition; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Public Administration Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • February 2023
  • Teaching Note

Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Jaya Y. Wen
In the fall of 2018, Rohima Begum considered her options as the small island, or “char,” on which her family’s house rested slowly but inescapably eroded into the mighty Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. Should she move to another island or into the city on the... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Geographic Location; Bangladesh
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  • 2021
  • Case

Leading Through Challenging Times: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms

By: Michael Norris, Rawi Abdelal and Kimberlyn Leary
Keisha Lance Bottoms took office as Mayor of Atlanta in 2018 with a progressive agenda and hopes to “keep Atlanta moving forward, leaving no one behind.” She was an Atlanta native, had previously served as a local judge and city councilor, and came into office with... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; City; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Economy; Atlanta; United States
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    Samuel L. Hayes

    Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.  He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He... View Details

    • 18 Sep 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: September 18

      PublicationsSidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan Authors:Francesca Gino Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming Abstract You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

    Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell
    • 08 Sep 2016
    • News

    Airbnb Plans To Fight Racism With Diversity. But Will It Be Enough?

    • 27 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 27, 2007

      Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 2022
    • Article

    Entry Points: Gaining Momentum in Early-Stage Cross-Boundary Collaborations

    By: Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo, Jorrit de Jong, Hannah Riley Bowles, Amy Edmondson, Anahide Nahhal and Lisa Cox
    To address complex social challenges, it is widely recognized that leaders from public, for-profit, and civic organizations should join forces. Yet, well-intended collaborators often struggle to achieve alignment and fail to gain traction in their joint efforts. This... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Goals and Objectives
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    • June 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Via Verde

    By: Arthur I Segel
    Developers Jonathan Rose and Adam Weinstein were trying to determine which of three proposals to submit to the city of New York in response to a RFP to create an affordable housing project in the South Bronx. The site, referred to as Via Verde, was a 1.5-acre... View Details
    Keywords: Affordable Housing; Property; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • 19 Mar 2020
    • News

    Two out of three people are not prepared for the next economic recession, according to a study. Here's how you can get financially ready while quarantined.

    • 01 Nov 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Meijun Liu, Shuo Li Liu, The University of Hong Kong, Division of information and technology & Stanford University School of Engineering

    • December 2016 (Revised February 2019)
    • Case

    Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago

    By: Joshua Margolis and Michael Norris
    In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, faced a decision with potential personal and political ramifications: whether or not to ask the city’s Mayor to join a class action antitrust suit against the city’s creditors for actions they took during the Global... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development; Career Journey; Leadership Development; Career; Leadership; Government and Politics; Personal Development and Career; Public Administration Industry; United States; Chicago
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    • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
    • Case

    AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

    By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
    By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
    Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      Cultural Entrepreneurship in NYC

      During weeklong January-term trips to New York City in 2013 and 2014, students from across Harvard University studied cultural entrepreneurship: new ventures in fashion, food, fine arts, and design. Students explored how such ventures are launched, and how proximity... View Details

      • 11 Jun 2024
      • In Practice

      The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

      As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions

      By: Nava Ashraf, Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
      Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but the urban poor are often unwilling to pay for the... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Urban Development; Organizations; City; Infrastructure; Zambia
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      • March 2017
      • Case

      CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A)

      By: William R. Kerr, Sari Kerr and Alexis Brownell
      CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and related companies and providing basic business needs like Wi-Fi and legal advice. Founder Tim Rowe refers to the CIC as "innovation infrastructure," bringing together... View Details
      Keywords: Start-ups; Boston; Cambridge; St. Louis; CIC; Cambridge Innovation Center; Co-working Space; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Innovation Ecosystems; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Offices; Innovation and Invention
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      • December 1996
      • Supplement

      Cleveland Turnaround: Leadership in Action

      By: James E. Austin, Jaan Elias and Andrea L Strimling
      Consists of three separate parts. Part 1, The Cleveland Turnaround, describes Cleveland's decline until its bankruptcy in 1978. This is followed by the remedial actions taken by community leaders, starting with the election of a new mayor, the formation of new... View Details
      Keywords: Leading Change; Business Cycles; Development Economics; Urban Development; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland
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